The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-02-04
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS.

Judge Spencer, the newly appointed
Judge writes Huron friends that he
will arrive there in February to enter
upon his duties. &
During the last quarter the Aberdeen
land Office transacted the following
business: Four hundred and forty;
FIVE original entries, representing TO-
300.76 acres, and $50 final entries;
representing 87,8O9.22 acres; the re-
ceipts during this time being $685.
726.45.
Henry Perkins, living west of Aber-
deem was found frozen to death.
Gary was without a mail from the
18th to the 21st ult.
At Devils Lake, Mrs. Olson made an
assignment to f. Prosser. Liabilities,
$1,000. The stock and real estate are
estimated at $4,000. Local banks
and merchants will lose little.
The surveyor general of Dakota
wants $4,000 more for pay of clerks
in his Office for the present fiscal year,
and in explanation says: The out
standing contract in Dakota aggre-
gates $23, $40, and the appropriation
of So, 600 for clerk hire for the year.
ending June 80, 1887, is inadequate
for the service, and the additional es-
innate of $4,000 is submitted as alb
solutely necessary for the proper dis
patch of the regular Office work conse-
quent upon the return of surveys,
which will be made before the close OF
the year. The sum estimated for Is
to meet the expenses from Jan. i,
1887, TO June3O, 1887. The estimate
submitted for the current fiscal year
was SO, 900
A herd of fourteen antelope were re-
Gently seen near jamestown, and a
short time ago a bunch OF forty were
reported fearlessly roaming through
La Moure county.
The great temperance revival now
in progress at Yankton was begun by
Col. Woodford, an itinerant lecturer.
The leaders in the reform will ignore
party and run a temperance ticket
for Yankton at the election in April.
A special telegram from Sioux Falls
announce that w. w. Goddard, edi-
tor of the Sioux Falls Argus, has been
selected by Gov. Church as the next
territorial auditor.
Hon. w. II. Steele, of Steele, is in
Washington looking after his patent
.car-heating apparatus. 1t is non-ex-
plosive, and promises to take the
place Of stoves, now altogether used
for car-heating purposes.
There has been much doubt and
hesitancy about the success OF the
artesian well at jamestown. during
it's process of drilling. Recently,
however, at q depth of about 1920
feet. a vein of water was struck and
jamestown people are happy.
j. IT,. Odell, assistant manager OF
the Northern Pacific railroad says
the keeping of the road clear from
snow caused a great deal of expense
and annoyance, but there was no
possibility of the road being closed OF
the occurrence OF q blockade of more
than twenty-four hours duration at
the longest. To keep the road open
was not only possible and practicable,
but considered by the management
necessary, and no pains or expense
would be spared to have the trains
run on schedule time.
The Bottineau Pioneer publishes
the names of the single ladies who
have land claims in that county.
They number forty-eight, ten OF
whom have proven up, and ten have
timber culture claims in addition to
their other. 1t thinks Bottineau
county offers special inducements to
young men.
In June, 1884, Alfred Brown and
Timothy Young, of Egan, Moody
county, bought a tract of land there
from a Sioux Indian before the five
years required by law had expired.
8. A. Bidwell and s. j. Taylor after
wards secured title and Judge Palmer
at Sioux Falls confirmed it. The land
is worth $4,000.
$500 Ur.~ o. E.~ks~l